According to the World Health Organization, more than 4.5 billion people are infected with parasitic diseases in the world.This is not even every second person, but more!
In developing countries, their prevalence indicators are much higher than among the population of developed countries, which proves the impact of living standards and internal conditions on these pests.Read for the most common of them below.
Bed
Furniture, paper -mourning, mattresses - all these are the favorite habitats of small flat insects, known as bugs in bed.They prefer to live near people or pets in order to come out freely from their shelters at night to drop the warm blood of man.
These errors are not carriers of diseases, but can cause an allergic reaction.If the bites are too brushed, an infection can be inserted into the wound.Treat the bite site with an antiseptic or take an antihistamine.
Morse
These insects also eat human blood.And contrary to the prevailing thought, they can live not only in the head, but generally with the whole body.
Lice are easier to capture close contact with someone who already has them, and to fight with the help of various tools, including special shampoos.
Scabies
Barriers are caused by ticks that penetrate the skin and lay eggs there.And the infection occurs with prolonged contact with the skin of a sick person.
Symptoms of scabies include itching, papulover redness and the formation of a crust on the affected surface of the skin.Treated with special medicines.
Pork
This parasite most often enters the human body with non -welded pork enough, but transmission is also possible in contact with the infected person or animal feces.
The parasite affects the intestines and the brain, which leads to cysticercosis - a disease that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, treatment is either not performed at all, or surgical methods are used.
The parasites build their lives with us (and even in us), but we do not doubt that.
Naelegleria Fowler
Naegleria Fowler is an amoeba living in warm warm water, which is most common in Southeast Asia and enters the human body when residing and water enters the nose.
It causes primary amo -bacon meningoencephalitis - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headaches, high fever, vomiting, confusion, convulsions, damaged balance and loss of consciousness.At this time, there are only experimental medicines from such a disease, so the survival with it is extremely low.
Round worms
A whole set of worms (ascarides, trichinelles, pinworms, etc.).Most of them affect the intestines.But a species that causes the parasitization of trichinellosis in the muscles.
Symptoms of infection with such parasites: abdominal pain (ascarides), blood loss and anemia (wormworms), itching in the anus (pinworms), pain, heat, facial edema, rash, rash (trichinella), mucus, juice and blood.
You can get rid of such parasites with the help of medicines recommended by your doctor.
Intestinal
If, after an outdoor trip, you began to torture signs such as diarrhea, bloating, cramps, nausea, then - do not go to fortuneteller - this bad parasite has probably penetrated your body.You can become infected through food and water, as well as by contact with a person or infected animal feces.Fortunately, it is treated quickly and not expensive medicines.
trypanosomes
This parasite causes a life -threatening Shagas disease.The disease spreads with a particular type of flaws.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, head and muscle pain, redness, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and eyelid edema - manifest very quickly.
The disease can lead to chronic heart and intestinal damage.The disease is treated with special medicines.
Cryptosporidium
These parasites affect the intestines.They spread through contact with a person or infected animal feces.Most often, the infection occurs during washing.Diarrhea caused by cryptosporidiums can last a long time, but most often does not require treatment.
Plasmodium falciparum
Carriers of this parasite that cause malaria are mosquitoes.This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more deaths than everyone else.
Symptoms are similar to flu symptoms - chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.To establish a diagnosis, a laboratory blood test is required.The main thing to remember is - the sooner the treatment begins, the more the patient has a chance to survive.
Tricomonad
This parasite causes a sexually transmitted disease called trichomoniasis.Most infected symptoms are missing.But some may feel itching, burning or irritation in the genital area.The disease is treated with antibiotics.
Dientamoeba fragilis
Doctors still do not know how this parasite affecting the colon enters the body.In some, the disease persists asymptomatic, others complain of abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dientamoeba fragilis is found in all regions of the world.Your doctor can prescribe special medicines for you to fight this microorganism.
Toxoplasm
This parasite is felt at home with meat, water and cat feces.In humans, toxoplasma causes a disease with a similar name - toxoplasmosis.And its symptoms sometimes resemble the flu.
In pregnant women and people with weakened immunity, symptoms can be more serious, for example, with toxoplasmosis, cysts in muscles, brain and even ... eyes can form.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
Guinean worm
The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - Dracunculus medinsis) is practically not found in our time - due to the spread of information on precautions.The parasite enters the human body with the absorption of water, in which there were large printed nuts infected with parasite larvae.
In the human body, they grow in the intestine, after which they migrate to the lymph vessels, and from there they penetrate the skin and are localized to the subcutaneous tissue.Among the symptoms may have heat, edema and pain at the site of worm localization.But from the moment of infection, until the appearance of the first symptoms, one year can pass.And there is no treatment.